 Source: HRO.org (info) The head of the department for legal compliance in the enforcement of criminal punishments of the Perm Public Prosecutor's Office, Yury Sobolev, has responded to a petition by the lawyer Irina Khrunova, in which she describes the circumstances surrounding the violation of the rights and legitimate interests of Maria Alekhina in Penal Colony No. 28. On 21 March defence lawyer for members of the Pussy Riot group received that response, Agora Human Rights Association reports. “Upon further investigation, a breach of the provisions of Article 80 of the Russian Criminal Punishment Execution Code was found regarding the separate detention of convicted prisoners that have formerly served time (Ivanova and Kachur) from those convicted for the first time (Alekhina),” wrote Public Prosecutor Yury Sobolev. “The Bereznikovsky Public Prosecutor has made a submission against the head of Penal Colony 28 concerning legal compliance at the correctional facility.” With regard to the removal of Maria Alekhina to a safe place following an altercation with convicted prisoners Kachur and Ivanova, the Bereznikovsky Public Prosecutor remarked that, "The action taken does not exclude a threat to the personal safety of the convicted person in the correctional facility." “The convicted prisoners Ivanov and Kachur were subjected to disciplinary punishment for starting a fight by being put in a solitary confinement cell and were subsequently transferred to other units,” according to the response by the Public Prosecutor's Office. In addition, the Public Prosecutor's Office and penal colony management itself confirmed that the illegal censorship of letters had been taking place. Inspector Gileva was reprimanded for following an order by the head of Penal Colony No. 28 to open correspondence from the Public Oversight Commission addressed to Maria Alekhina. Yury Sobolev said that the findings of psychologist Vladimir Rubashny, who has 18 years’ experience and whose examination of Maria Alekhina by order of the head of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, Mikhail Fedotov, "will be utilised in the future work of Penal Colony No. 28's psychological department, including in the provision of psychological care to M. V. Alekhina." Having examined Maria Alekhina, Vladimir Rubashny, who is a former head of the psychological agency of the Criminal Punishment Execution of Tatarstan, retired Lieutenant Colonel of Internal Service, and now member of the Public Oversight Commission of Tatarstan, concluded earlier that the work of the psychological department performed by staff at Penal Colony No. 28 did not satisfy the requirements of the Russian Criminal Enforcement Code and the corresponding order of the Ministry of Justice, 'On Enacting Regulations Governing the Management of the Psychological Agency of the Criminal Enforcement System'. On 16-17 January, the Commission of the Russian Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, comprising the Novaya Gazeta journalist Yelena Masyuk, chair of the Committee against Torture Igor Kalyapin and the expert Vladimir Rubashny, visited the penal colony in the Perm region and met with the Pussy Riot member, Maria Alekhina. |
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